Booktalk
PETE HAMILL'S SECOND STREET-WISE NOVEL ENHANCES CLICHÉ WITH SKILL
The NFL
With only one weekend remaining in the NFL's regular season, it would take an MIT Ph. D. to compute all of the potential playoff matchups
By Dan Jenkins
In 1977 B.C. (Before Cunningham), the 76ers couldn't hold a lead against the Trail Blazers and had dropped five in a row to them. Last week they sent in an emergency unit that totally defused Portland
By John Papanek
The Bowls
SETTING UP A SHOWDOWN IN DALLAS
Somehow the bowl selections turned out fine—dandy, in fact—despite PSP and the poker politics that forced a few hands
Sportsman Of The Year
Among the sports celebrities of 1977 were schoolboys and girls, a ninth-grader who was the toast of Forest Hills, an 8-year-old who made Frank Shorter blink, a playground star who led grown men a merry dance. Their wondrous skills delighted all who watched, and brought refreshment and a certain joy to big-time athletics. But of all the prodigies, none burst on the scene so remarkably or garnered as much glory as Steve Cauthen, 17, who just 12 months ago was a bug boy at a bush track and now is Sportsman of the Year.
By Frank Deford
SPEAKING OF YOUTH WHAT A YEAR!
Fort Zack
A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR FORT ZACK
Pro basketball superstar 'Double T' Townsend injures his hand on Santa Claus Night. Thereafter, in this fictional tale of a holiday miracle, he and his team are transformed
By Frank Deford
TV/Radio
College Basketball
Roger Phegley went to Bradley to play baseball, but he has been a hit at hoops
By Larry Keith
By Herman Weiskopf
Bridge Quiz
For The Record
A roundup of the week Dec. 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert H. Boyle
